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Title:
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ON ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY AND LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS BASED ON MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA |
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Author(s):
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Jari Multisilta |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-45-8 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Mobile social media, learning ecosystem, actor-network theory, ANT |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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193 |
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Last Page:
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198 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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In this paper we will define learning ecosystems based on social media and try to describe the learning process in these environments using Actor-Network Theory. Especially, we are interested in the question of how an ad-hoc group of learners could be understood as an actor-network in ANT. We claim, that the availability of social media does not guarantee that the actors in the social media system form the actor-network. However, it would be important to know under which conditions the actor-network is formed and what kind of quality we get from the actor-networks. Finally, we conclude that pedagogically meaningful and high-quality learning ecosystems based on mobile social media can be described as actor-networks. |
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